hornless

[hawrn-lis]

adjective

1. (of cattle, sheep, or the like) having no horns on the head.

2. not frightening or evil, especially in contrast to expectation.

3. (of a musical performance or recording) not including or making use of horns or other brass instruments.

Example Sentences

A Crispr experiment to breed hornless cattle in the U.S. was initially hailed as a major success, but was later discovered to have introduced an unintended stretch of bacterial DNA into the cows' genome.

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Potential applications of gene-editing technology include genetically hornless cows, and pigs or chickens that are resistant to diseases.

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Many dairy farmers prefer hornless cows — horns can inflict damage when wielded by 1,500-pound animals — so they often burn them off in a painful process using corrosive chemicals and scalding irons.

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In 2016, scientists reported that two male dairy bulls had been born with a hornless mutation that had been introduced into their DNA sequence using genome editing.

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One breed is dominant when it comes to the quantitative genetics game: the hornless, black Angus, which has been promoted as having better beef than others.

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